Geology 100 Self-Test 6

Answer the questions below and then click "submit" to send your answers.

  1. What is the definition of a contact? What are the four main types of contacts? (Hint: To answer the second part of question requires that you look up Unconformities which is in Chapter 8)

    2. Your answer:

  2. What is the difference between the strike, the direction of dip and the angle of dip?

    3. Your answer:

  3. Which of the following statements is true?

    4. Your answer:
    when forces are applied to an object, the object is under stress
    strain is the change in size (volume) or shape, or both, while an object is undergoing stress
    s can be compressive, tensional, or shear
    all of the above

  4. Folds in a rock show that the rock behaved in

    5. Your answer:
    a ductile way
    an elastic way
    a brittle way
    all of the above

  5. An anticline is

    6. Your answer:
    any fold
    an overturned fold
    an upward-arched fold
    a downward-arched fold

  6. A syncline is

    7. Your answer:
    an upward-arched fold
    overturned fold
    a downward-arched fold
    horizontal beds

  7. Fractures in bedrock along which movement has taken place are called

    8. Your answer:
    joints
    faults
    cracks
    crevasses

  8. In a normal fault, the hanging-wall block has moved ___ relative to the footwall block.

    9. Your answer:
    upward
    downward
    sideways

  9. Faults that typically move older rock on top of younger rock are

    10. Your answer:
    normal faults
    thrust faults
    strike-slip faults

  10. A subduction zone can be regarded as a very large example of what type of fault?

    11. Your answer: